I have her mannerisms! ("The older you get, the more you look like your mother!")

[Jo]

It's July 28, 2008.
On July 28, 1917, in Gouda, The Netherlands, Jacoba Postma, my mother, was born. The fourth of nine children, to the bridge- (and lock-) -keeper, Jan Postma and Betty Schoonens.
After a long period of slowly drifting further and further into Alzheimers, she passed away 4 May, 2004.
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When they were young teenagers, she'd been sent out to meet my father, (_born 14 July, 1917, in Gouda,_) by her younger sister, when he came to call, in the 1930s and stayed together the rest of her life.

As I got out of my car, when taking a friend of my mother's to visit my father, in the retirement village, last week, the friend told me, across the roof of the car:
_You look *so much* like your mother. Even your mannerisms!_
A few months ago, the neighbour who lives opposite and whose wife can observe me from their kitchen window, told me that she had said:
_(As he get older) he looks more and more like his mother, every day!_

Read on..........